[ubuntu-uk] Online Discussion Forum - To be or not to be?

Sean Miller sean at seanmiller.net
Mon Oct 9 19:56:30 BST 2006


John K Masters wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 19:26:54 +0100
> Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:37:04PM +0100, "tedsmith28 at yahoo.co.uk"
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I realise it was spoken about some week ago, but I really do feel
>>> that perhaps we should re-visit the possibility of an online
>>> discussion forum.
>>>       
>> For what purpose? Having a mailing list *and* a forum almost always
>> leads to a split in a community. You generally find people who prefer
>> mailing lists stay on the list, people who prefer forums stay there.
>> This leads to fragmented and duplicated discussions.
>>
>>     
> <BigSnip>
>
> I have seen this debate on other mailing lists and can sympathise with
> both sides. I believe the problem lies with certain mail clients that
> do not support threads, which makes it very hard to follow specific
> topics. Many webmail clients are like this.
>
> Myself, I have an ongoing problem with my host losing emails and making
> it almost impossible to transfer my domain.
>
> Possibly a prog to view posts in either form?
>   
Mailman does have an archive which can be accessed via a browser in 
either threaded or chronological modes.

I believe this to be a Mailman list, hence do we not already have a way 
of reading the list threaded?

Sean



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